P. F. Sloan

P. F. "Flip" Sloan was an American pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was very successful during the mid-1960s, writing, performing, and producing Billboard Top 20 hits for artists such as Barry McGuire, The Searchers, Jan and Dean, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, The Grass Roots, The Turtles and The Mamas and the Papas. Sloan's signature song is "Eve of Destruction" – a 1965 US number one for Barry McGuire. Many of his songs were written in collaboration with Steve Barri. Their partnership yielded two US Top Ten hits — Herman's Hermits' "A Must to Avoid" (1965/66) and Johnny Rivers's "Secret Agent Man" (1966) — and the Turtles' "You Baby".